jones_ll

jones_ll

Favorite films

  • Creep
  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
  • Saltburn
  • Safety Not Guaranteed

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  • The Substance

    ★★★½

  • It's What's Inside

    ★★½

  • Longlegs

    ★★★½

  • Inside Out 2

    ★★★½

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  • The Substance

    The Substance

    ★★★½

    I was really looking forward to this one. I had high expectations and sadly it did not live up to the hype for me. It was good and I enjoyed it. Good body horror where I didn't think it did anything too ridiculous (not including the ending which I’ll get into). Casting was great and I loved the filming and sound. I like when horror movies are creative in their display and presentation. The ending was just too absurd, I was laughing thoughout the entire ending scene it was so unserious. I think it tainted the whole thing for me.

  • It's What's Inside

    It's What's Inside

    ★★½

    Having a tough time with this review because at the end of the day I did enjoy this. But only because I find this trope always entertaining. It is 100% a rip off of every who done it movie ever. The over explanation at the end really took away from the entire movie. It was a Netflix release so I wasn’t holding my breathe for anything groundbreaking. Yet I did find myself enjoying it so not a total loss. Watch it while you clean your room.

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  • Longlegs

    Longlegs

    ★★★½

    I think it’s very difficult to be new/exciting/different in the horror/scary movie space. Many rely on played out tropes or cliches we see often and so I give this movie a lot of props because I do think it was different and unique. My critique of it comes from falling back on those played out horror movie cliches in the third act. If they stuck out with the original concept they were working with of a serial killer and a…

  • Rise of the Planet of the Apes

    Rise of the Planet of the Apes

    ★★★★

    Bone chillingly scared the mice in the lab will pull something like this

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